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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Aug-1990 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name CHEMAINUS, MAINE (L.13G) Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B062
Status Showing NTS Map 092B12E
Latitude 048º 37' 06'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 36' 09'' Northing 5385204
Easting 455596
Commodities Magnetite, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The region is underlain by the Mesozoic and/or Paleozoic Wark Gneiss and greenstone of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group. A discontinuous carbonate horizon extends along a northwest trend and is thought to be correlative with the Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation, Vancouver Group. The Wark Gneiss comprises mainly massive and gneissic metadiorite, metagabbro and amphibolite and is possibly the metamorphic equivalent of a mafic unit of either the Paleozoic Sicker Group or the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group); the latest metamorphism took place in the Jurassic.

A shaft has been sunk for about 6 metres on an outcrop of magnetite containing minor chalcopyrite. On the adjacent Willoron showings (092B 056) magnetite ore occurs mainly in the limestone band at or near contacts of greenstone or dioritized greenstone. Skarn minerals in the area are reported to be garnet, epidote and diopside.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1902-221; 1961-112
EMPR PF (*Aho, A.E.(1961): Report on Willoron Iron Property (in 092B 056 file); Map of part of Willoron Group showing deposits, Scale 1: 6000, A.E. Aho, 1961 (in 092B 056 file); Dip Needle Survey Plan map (geology map) of part of Willoron Group, Scale 1: 3000, A.E. Aho, 1961 (in 092B 056 file)
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC MEM 13, p. 159; 96
GSC OF 463
GSC P 72-44; 75-1A, p. 23; 79-30
Falconbridge File

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